Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

My only response to that is: the parliament's power to make laws is subject to this Constitution, and that means the power to make laws is subject to the power to make representations. That's the logical flow of that, and any reciprocal Constitution obligations would be placed on the government. One of those reciprocal obligations is a duty to consider. So I hardly think it is a scare campaign to ask questions on behalf of the Australian people, who don't have the ability to stand here tonight. I am representing Western Australia; Senator Henderson is representing Victoria; Senator Nampijinpa Price, the Northern Territory; Senator McKenzie, Victoria; and Senator Askew, Tasmania. We are asking these questions on behalf of the people that we are here tonight representing. So it is not a scare campaign to ask a genuine question on the legal implications of what the government is asking the Australian people to vote on.

Now I ask: is there any requirement that a person launching an administrative law challenge would themselves have to be an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person?